Education
University of California, Berkeley. Brigham Young University.
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James Gordon III
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Gordon earned a bachelor"s degree in political science from Brigham Young University. He then earned a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a law clerk for Judge Monroe G. McKay of the 10th United States Circuit court. He then practiced law in Salt Lake City before joining the Brigham Young University faculty.
At Brigham Young University, Gordon served as Marion B. and Rulon A. Earl Professor of Law.
He also was acting dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School from 2009 to 2010 and served for a time as associate academic vice president for faculty at Brigham Young University. In this position, he served as the point man for the university"s position in relation to the refusal to grant continuing status to a few professors at Brigham Young University in the mid-1990s who publicly criticized the school or its sponsoring institution instead of producing worth-while scholarship in their fields of endeavor.
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In 2010, he was appointed assistant to the president for planning and assessment at Brigham Young University, filling the position vacated by Gerrit West. Gong, who become a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
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